Surveillance (1997)

ALL 11/08/1997 (zh) Comedy, Drama, Horror 100 Min
  • Release
    11/08/1997
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    66%
  • Original title
    埋伏
  • Original language
    zh
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Hailed by the Chinese government as one of the ten best films of the 1996-97 season, this irony-laced light drama is based on a novel by Fang Fang, and begins with the brutal slaying and robbery of a dock worker's family. The city assigns one of its best detectives, Yan Gao to find "the Wise One," the crime lord behind the murders. To do this, Yan sets up a series of surveillance sights around the city. When port guard Ye learns that he and his supervisor have been chosen to monitor one of the Wise One's main hideouts, he is delighted. It is the most exciting thing to have happened to him in years. But problems come because he must work nights and is sworn to secrecy. His girlfriend Bai Lin misinterprets his absences and this causes trouble. More trouble comes when her old lover shows up. Matters are made worse when a message for Ye and Tian to stop their surveillance does not get through.

  1. Story

  2. Editor

  3. Producer



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Casts

  1. Feng Gong

    Ye Minzhu / 叶民主

  2. Jiang Shan

    Bai Lin / 百林

  3. Teng Ru-jun

    Tian Gongshun (as Rujun Teng) / 田恭顺

  4. Niu Zhen-Hua

    Zhi Zhe / 智者

  5. Zhang Jiayi

    Gao Yang / 杨高

  6. Chen Hao

    Tong Tong / 童童

  7. Haihai Lin

    Tai / 小邰

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 2

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Surveillance (1997) 100 Min

ALL 11/08/1997 (zh)
Comedy, Drama, Horror
  • Release 11/08/1997
  • Production
  • Original title 埋伏
  • zh
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Hailed by the Chinese government as one of the ten best films of the 1996-97 season, this irony-laced light drama is based on a novel by Fang Fang, and begins with the brutal slaying and robbery of a dock worker's family. The city assigns one of its best detectives, Yan Gao to find "the Wise One," the crime lord behind the murders. To do this, Yan sets up a series of surveillance sights around the city. When port guard Ye learns that he and his supervisor have been chosen to monitor one of the Wise One's main hideouts, he is delighted. It is the most exciting thing to have happened to him in years. But problems come because he must work nights and is sworn to secrecy. His girlfriend Bai Lin misinterprets his absences and this causes trouble. More trouble comes when her old lover shows up. Matters are made worse when a message for Ye and Tian to stop their surveillance does not get through.

  1. Huang Jianxin, Yang Yazhou

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer